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...regular staff of editors also rounded up a roster of expert contributors, ranging from Herbert Warren Wind in golf and Davis Cup Captain William F. Talbert in tennis to such talented amateurs as Nobelman William Faulkner. The Faulkner story of the Kentucky Derby so impressed Bing Crosby that The Groaner read it in three installments on his radio show...
...Fortifying himself against Tokyo's 95° heat with gin and tonics, Nobel Prize-winning Author William (A Fable) Faulkner, on his first visit to Japan as a star attraction of the State Department's Cultural Exchange Program, candidly entertained Japanese and U.S. newsmen at a one-hour pressoiree. Asked if he is now penciling a novel. Mississippi Squire Faulkner harrumphed: "No. I have reached the age now (57) when I work only when the weather is bad." Why did he write Sanctuary? 'I wanted a horse, and I heard that people were making money by writing...
Climax (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Wild Stallion, adapted from William Faulkner's short story, Knight's Gambit, starring Paul Henreid, Mary Astor, Evelyn Keyes...
...script is by a battery of writers headed by Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner, but he is probably not responsible for the film's prize anachronistic line: when the high priest recoils from villainous Joan Collins, she snaps back in British accents with the devastating Bronx locution: "The feeling is mutual...
Mississippi Squire William Faulkner, who lets neither his 1949 Nobel Prize nor his current Pulitzer Prize (for A Fable) shatter his belief that he is just a simple agrarian with a literary bent, confided to a Manhattan interviewer that he long since missed his true calling. Said he wistfully: "I was born to be a tramp. I was happiest when I had nothing. I had a trench coat then with big pockets. It would carry a pair of socks, a condensed Shakespeare and a bottle of whisky. Then I was happy and I wanted nothing and I had no responsibility...